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adenigga:
Source: https://punchng.com/FG-may-pay-N1.68tn-fuel-subsidy-marketers-forecast-N900/litre

The statement ascribed to the CSO makes no sense. Since NNPC is the sole importer of petrol, which marketers is he referring to that benefit from the devaluation to ask for higher payments? People who don't even know the goings on in the industry just like to say nonsense, because it will sell in the papers.

Same way the marketers are always saying the price of petrol will only crash when we use Nigerian crude and not imported crude!! How will it crash, when the crude will be paid for and not free. Even if petrol reduces by N70 because the freight and import duties etc are no longer there, is N70 a crash!!?

Guyman01:
Fulani una time don pass, see where una brother nepotism don land us, complaining about Yorubanization by Tinubu makes you look like hypocrites.

Nigerians lamented about how one region totally dominated the establishment under Buhari to a point that if you visit NNPC headquarters in Abuja on Monday you will think you are in a Jumat mosque in Kano on Friday with the number of people you will see on Kaftan and jalabia. Just check the names of those sacked, its mostly Fulani Muslims who mismanaged the NNPC and put us un the current mess where we can't refine our own crude but depend on Dangote a renowned Fulani monopolist

I kind of agree. Whilst I'm not tribalistic and I do agree that competence shoukd reign, but the truth of the matter is that the north had been feeding fat on this nation for too long.
And the annoying fact is that they are the most illiterate.

If you look at the national register of most professional bodies like:

Institute of Chartered Accountant of Niveria
Chartered Institute of Taxation
Nigerian Society of Engineers
Nigeria Institute of Quantity Surveyors
Nigeria Institute of Architects
Nigeria Medical Association
Nigerian Dental Association

And many more, you hardly find northerners there, so how come in government they are by far in the majority?? To the extent that of you go to NAPIMS, FIRS, NDIC etc they are always the bosses, while Yorubas and Igbos are doing the heavy lifting?

One day I was driving past NDIC building at Nitel House on Marina at closing time, I was shocked by the number of northerners leaving the office.... In LAGOS!! How many Yorubas will you find in a government establishment in Kaduna or Kano!!

How can the most illiterate part of the country dominate the rest of the country in civil service and government? It makes no sense!?

If you do proper employment evaluation test for many northerners in government I cn bet you 50% will fail. Many of them enter university with 120 Jamb. Meanwhile in the SW and SE, you will score 240 and still be hustling for admission!!

Parasolorg:
Congratulations, we need feature where you can negotiate with the driver.

They will waste everybody's time. If I'm going to work I have no time to be haggling with folks

ijustdey:
https://punchng.com/s3xual-harassment-varsities-polys-clamp-down-on-35-profs-others/?amp

In this day and age, ASUU is expecting students to report sexual harassment in suggestion boxes!!? Instead of creating an app or webpage on the school website or platform for this.

AlexBells:
I had always believed that with the abundance of energy resources in the form of coal, gas and crude oil all available in Enugu in comercial quantities, that Enugu is supposed to be an energy and electricity hub and Today
the executive governor of Enugu state has not just passed the electricity bill, he also aimed to move Enugu economy from 4.4 to 30 billion USD.



https://businessday.ng/news/article/gov-mbah-signs-electricity-bill-into-law/?amp=1

There is a lot more to having stable electricity in any state than signing Electricity Acts into Law! The state regulatory body will still have to engage with NERC and the existing DISCO, except the expectation is that brand new electricity cables will be laid everywhere!

And the state will still have to find investors, who are in short supply, considering the pitfalls with investing in Nigeria. Electricity in particular is a very difficult product to control and monitor effectively. Nigeria probably has one of the largest rates of electricity theft in the world.

And it remains to be seen if any Nigerian investors will go into this sector, the more technical a space, the more Nigerians run a way from it, since we are primarily traders and not business men. We don't know how to add value to stuff - only import and buy and sell is what we do best.

wink2015:
He spoke the truth and the facts and it is you that is turning the facts into a TRIBAL issues.

If Nigeria is running a true federalism the federal government should have no business sending war planes to bomb an oil producing community.

It is wrong.

Why not use that war planes to fight BOKO HARAM BOYS.

It is local civilian they are showing STRONG BONES for !

Don't be daft!! There have been several reports over the years of NAF jets bombing Boko Haram and ISWAP sites!

Stop this selective memory!!

Lukepeter:
That's promotion of criminality, they should apply for licensing like any serious person and not cutting through corners, did you even bother to ask yourself where they get the crude oil from? Stop supporting an act criminality.

Are you minding the guy. The shallowness of Nigerian's is alarming. The lack of critical thinking and use of logic on Nairaland and other social media by Nigerians show that many are literate but few are educated.

Crude that oil companies invested billions of dollars to get out of the ground and illegal refiners are stealing is what people are saying they should be allowed to operate because refineries are not working.

Okay, if government builds 10 refineries and all the crude coming from the ground is stolen, that what would have been the point of building those refineries? Where will the crude to get the refineries working then come from?

[quote author=Corn247 post=125855599][/quote]Here we go again! I recall growing up in Ibadan in the late 80's and early 90's, we had TCTC - Trans City Transport Company. Where is that one today? If we had kept that from then till now, Ibadan would have a structure for mass transit. Now we have to start all over again. And there is no guarantee the next Governor after Makinde will keep this going.

If it remains in the hand of government, it will fail like a pack of cards. Best thing is for the government to create a company to manage the business with private sector. Let the cost of the buses and the bus stops and bus stations be on the balance sheet of the government, while the company set up 'leases' it from the government for free. That way the only thing the company will be responsible for is ensuring that the fees riders pay are sufficient to fund the operating costs - salaries of drivers, fuel and maintenance of the vehicles.

softy:
There is no light at Abule Egba, Ipaja Ayobo, Ahmadyya area right now as I speak. If Grid has been restored, why is there no light till now?
Pls, tell us if you have light right now in ur location.

Its back in Lekki since last night.

GO0DHardDick:
Ordinary 24/7hrs light that other countries such as Ghana, south Africa, Egypt, Tunisia etc are all enjoying, Nigeria cannot boast of any!!!

What a very useless country. To make matter worst a drug lord has ascended the highest seat in the land. I trust Atiku to drag the USA Court to release Tinubu's documents! Werey presented forge certificates to inec and yet he was sworn in. Corruption pro max!!!

If you read the news, especially international news, not social media, you'd know that South Africa is suffering from terrible outages which has steadily worsened in last 5 years. Based on my friend in Jbourgs load shedding schedule, the light i get in Lekki is currently is better than what he's getting.

OBIDIENTNAIJA:
Only if our useless leaders can acquire working brains for once. The moment they make electricity available 24hrs jobs will spring up everywhere. Many industries will employ more people and there will be pay rise. With epileptic power supply, those hopes are dashed. Only few people will be employed cause of the cost of running on diesel and fuel.

Those importing generators are the brain behind this nonsense. All for money. Money they won't spend when they die.
Indeed the heart of man is wicked.
🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁

Its not that simplistic! Nigerian's often take the simplistic approach that doing one single thing will solve specific economic problems.

Solutions to any economies issues requires a a complex interplay of various factors working in tandem.

Even if we were to magically have 24hrs electricity in Nigeria, what about access to capital, efficient ports for import and export of goods and materials, a well educated and skilled workforce, good transportation networks across Nigeria, sanctity of contract, efficient judicial system , security and many more

EleventhWeirdo:
Why add ethnic coloration to the stats? Is you head paining you, OP

It's not ethnic coloration. Facts are just facts. Every ethnic group in Nigeria have certain facts about them.

festacman:
Aesthetically, Florence Ita-Giwa is at liberty, like any other woman, to make effort to look beautiful. Politically, however, there is basically no difference between Donald Duke and Florence Ita-Giwa. They are part of the selfish politicians that keep riding on the back of people of Cross River people to advance political and financial interests since the formation of PDP in 1989. They may change political parties, but their motives remain the same.

What is still baffling today is how Donald Duke, as governor of Cross River State, sunk billions of Naira in Tinapa Project, a project of which he alone seems to understand in the whole in Cross River State because even Liyel Imoke the successor governor he installed abandoned it and successive governors followed suit. The buildings are still there wasting away and he, Donald Duke has not even been able to explain how to put the buildings to use as the one who conceived the project.

All over the world, a massive project as Tinapa comes with a document that shows the plan, the phases, the objectives, cost/benefit analysis, opportunities it offers, scalability, how it will impact other sectors, etc. This helps everybody to buy into the project and successive governments would find it easy to continue or even improve upon. Tinapa looks now like Donald Duke's personal pet vanity project.

Donald Duke should shut the f*ck up.

You are the one who's pretty dumb. Why should Donld Duke be the one to tell them how to use Tinapa. Isn't it obvious that the typical brainless and lazy politicians who don't want to work hard for their IGR, but would rather go and share money in Abuja!!

Donald Duke did wonders for Cross Rivers and future dumb leaders refused to follow suit! What is DD to do?

Calabar was a place slowly but surely All Nigerians were looking forward to going to for the December carnival. My first road trip as a married man in Easter 2009 from PH was to Calabar. We enjoyed it thoroughly. Going to Tinapa hotel, boat ride on the lake, lunch at Marina resort and the in the evening we went for my first ever live performance by Asa at the Studio Tinapa. The shops at the mall too were coming alive. Likewise obudu was brimming with life. Everybody wanted to go there.

Now all of that is dead because of visionless governors and you blame Donald Duke!!

You will forever lack vision then!!

PrinceOfLagos:
LAMATA didn't add Yoruba language because it's totally unnecessary

I actually agree with Lagos Assembly on the use of Yoruba.

By the time market women start using it to come to island every day, it will be helpful for the old men and women to understand the instructions.

tophempire:
Good morning 🌞
Cutting cost of governance is a good idea, but to what extend??

If you cut cost of governance and you add that workload to someone else will it not slow down productivity?? I just trying to be logical.

Nigeria is a big country and it's not what it take to run Ghana that you'll need to run Nigeria.

On building strong institutions I agree with you. But has the president not been tilting that direction?

I believe time will be fair to us. He wasn't invited to India, he went there and got us $14b then to uae to get another $10b and then Volkswagen may just be on their way back to Nigeria. This will mean that jobs will be available for us the youth.

Since the man said we were being shortchanged by power holdings, I now let my phone get to 5% before charging because electricity is almost constant. Now he wants us to report where there's power outages. Power, road and security is all we need to make businesses work and he's actively working on that. Now tax will be reduce by over 80%.

This are good changes

By going digital and computerized, one person can do what 3 people were doing before.

If you go to our Ministries, you'll see how archaic they are.

plaindealer:
Peter Obi also made a lot of noise about unemployment, but he left out the fact that cutting cost of governance means mass layoff and retrenchment and what to do with the retrenched workers.

Cutting cost of governance rhetorics sounds good, but are you okay with the consequences ?

Well, no one can make an omelette without breaking an egg!!

We all know that Nigeria's civil service is over bloated. As you saw from the recent scandal on employment, we have been running employment scams for years.

For me its not just about wooing them back. How about paying Nigerians a livable wage that can enable them to buy one.

What's the point of Volks coming back to Nigeria if no one can afford to buy their vehicles? I saw a Toyota Nigeria price list recently and Camry 2.4l was about N47mln!!!

Acekidc4:
Makinde leave hungry Ibadan citizens go Watch Tennis for America🤔 But Seyi Why😕🤨

So he should never rest because he's governor abi? He should never go on leave abi?

The incompetence and corruption in Nigeria knows no bounds!!!

politicoNG:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0Agn1qZwz4qYw82X78oPwVdQ8D1oaCMeShV4hZMp2cwWs11gwUXAdwJRaNpje7PLcl&id=100085909577280&mibextid=Nif5oz

How come it seems to only be LP that tribunals are upturning?? This is like the 6th in the last week or so!

Newyorkitis:
Wetin e mean?

Abi o. Struggling to understand what it really means for the public.!!

Maybe he is known male runs guy in the female Nollywood circles. I hear these days single women (and even married women) pay for men to come bang them when they are horney.

Karemarealty288:
https://www.thecable.ng/north-east-governors-traditional-rulers-conniving-with-bandits-in-our-states/amp

I guess you would call this self preservation!! When bandits are in your vicinity and police/millitary are miles and miles away, the most basic thing you can do is appear to pally with the bandits. Give them what they need for self preservation.

dre11:
https://leadership.ng/air-force-to-acquire-2-aircraft-for-crude-oil-theft-war/

For the swamps of the Niger Delta, what you need are helicopters and not jet aircraft. helicopters can carry soldiers that you can easily hover over an illegal bunkering site and lower the troops down, while raining fire from above in case any illegal bunkerer tries to get trigger happy.

We are not really serious about stopping this thing. if I was in charge, I would set an SLA (service level agreement) that once a bunkering site is discovered, military must be on top of them in 2 days max!!

As for discovering them. it can be easily done with a combination of satellite technology and surveillance drones operating 24 hours over the Niger delta.

Shey we saw a video recently of the NNPC control room, where live satellite imaging was showing the guys at various sites at work? If after 6 months, these guys realize that every time they try and re-establish in a new location, military are on top of them in a matter of days, the business will be deemed too risky and many of them will go do something else. The incidence of this illegal crude bunkering will drop dramatically.

[quote author=robosky02 post=125709896][/quote]Simple mathematics is lacking here. Osimhen's goal per game ratio is 0.76!!

HonNL:
Africa Facts Zone

Natural, considering we are 200mlns plus people.

Seun360:
So much noise about this light rail thing, so na only Marina to Mile2 everybody dey go?

Red line is coming soon

AllenSpencer:
Can imagine the money lost tonight!

Less than 1% envisaged Israel’s defeat.

Cannot even explain how he lost! After that lunch that got him, dude just went into defensive.

In MMA and UFC it's very difficult to maintain a world title for many years the way they do in other sports. Just one lucky lunch or kick and it's all over.

fergie001:
Pictures of former US President, Barack Obama's youngest daughter, Sasha (22) smoking marijuana in public goes viral.

The girls looks like a rebel. She will soon get pregnant and end up on drugs at the rate she'd going. That USA ehn, if a child's head is not screwed on properly, tendency to derail is very high. Small time now, she will come out as gay!!

robosky02:
I hereby confirm Osimhen already the winner of CAF AFOTY

It will be absolutely CRAZY if Oshimhen doesn't win AFOTY!!

Sleekfingers:
What's stopping you from checking online? You want the governor to announce street by street using PA?
I believe you are using an internet enable phone.

I did check online and even the website of LAMATA itself is not able to provide much info

https://www.lamata-ng.com/our-train/

The link above tells you to get Cowry card. Doesn't say where? How much the card costs? How to top up...nada!!

The site gives schedule for only the day of inauguration what about the other days!? or are we to assume that the first train of the day is 9am!!!? Which time I go reach office?

So Mr Sleekfingers who erroneously assumed I didn't and rushed to type, I DEMAND AN APOLOGY!!

Raydos:
I've been to 15 states in Nigeria my whole life, and one thing I always notice is, Untarred roads, Lack of drainage system, Lack of proper planning e.t.c

Which always make me curious, Why does everywhere in Nigeria look like it got hit by a nuclear bomb? Why? Why don't we have modern streets and cities!!

Since the inception of Nigeria, I Don't think we have built any city, And please don't even mention Banana island, It's a piece of crap!!

It's sad that only about 3% of Nigeria is actually developed and the other 97% is just straight up piece of trash!!

Its a function of poverty of the people, illiteracy of the people, incompetence (from our town planners and government).

It may be acceptable that some of the poor, old parts of a town remain this way. After all the core of Ibadan, which is characterized by those brown tin roofs, were in existence hundreds of years ago. So the only way to modernize such areas is to bring them down in large chunks and redevelop.

However, where I weep more for Nigeria is the new areas of cities are not much better. For example, the Lekki peninsular was pretty much virgin land in the 80's and 90's. Lekki really took off in the late 90's. We had an opportunity to really plan that axis well, but as usual, we no dey get sense.

https://www.nairaland.com/7550276/estate-layouts-nigeria